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• Does anyone know any places that will show NFL games now that the season starts up?

  If you were to have an extended choice of channels at your house, what channels might be showing the games late night?

  Star Sports is showing the RFWC which is understandable.

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• Posted Friday September 7th, 2007.

  The guy that runs the Sheesha room at dragonfly is supposed to be opening up his own Middle Eastern place soon.

  In response to the question: Where can I find a middle East cuisine? Like hummos, and kafta and falafel with pita bread! I see that dragonfly has sheesha, but does it also carry t...

• Posted Thursday June 26th, 2008.

  I'm glad to hear you've resolved the issue to some extent.

  What's clear from situations like this is that there needs to be a place where people voice their complaints about their landlords (like New Hanoian).

  The attitude of most landlords is that if you refuse to pay or disagree they can always find a foreigner willing to accept their price and terms. This is generally true, but mostly because people are unaware of their other options or the problems previous tenants had.

  By letting the general community-or at least some portion of the expat population-know about your bad experiences with a certain building or landlord, people will be hesitant to deal with them in the future. Its a landlord's market and they know it, but if landlords like yours couldn't find a tenant for at least a bit, they might start to cede in rental terms.

  For the record, my contract includes a stipulation that we will pay at the Vietcombank rate. Not that it matters since we had to pay 6 months up front. We fought for a bit on that point, but gave in. I'm sure our landlord is upset they are stuck with 16000 through August.

  In response to the question: My rent contract is in USD but I pay in VND, I think this is pretty standard and wasnt a problem at all until last month. At that time my landlord...

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